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Show THE CIS FY ENN E VAV- evt;if eni ill ore Killed tiuil a uniber ou a tied . The Sohlicrsol WsNlFt' Commit Com-mit ud uIho EillltMl. Fort Robinson, 22. The Cheyenne Indian campaign has closed (or a time at least. Ou Monday Colooel j Evans, with companies B and I), j Third cavalry, found the renegades ini a strong position in the clitls, four-miles four-miles north, of the stage road and par-1 tially succeeded in cutting off their) progress. They effected their usual; scape and moved towards the Red Cloud agency. CupUin Weasels, whose scouts i-ooveyed this news to him, started at once ou their trait with hia four companies ol cavalry and at nocu today ho came up to thorn, some forty Qvo miles from thia post. Then the work of capturing them either dead or nlive. bei'an in dead earnest. In fact, but thirty, with uine of that uumbor badly wounded, were taken alive of the forty nino fugitives that were in the field, leaving leav-ing seventeen killed. - Cnptain Weasels Wea-sels waa slightly wounded; the firnt yergeant of company E and an In-diau In-diau scout were also wounded to an unknown extent, aud three of Weasel's Wea-sel's command, a sergeant, a farrier and one private, were killed. This '.etvt, arrived verbally by a courier at iniduight, and morn couriers, with details of tho battle, uro cxjji-iUl : soon. Ambulances baveju-l utartcil at midnight to bring in the dead and wounded. |
